140+ Best Depressing Quotes About Love and Life [PROFOUND]

Depression could, in fact, be tremendously isolating. Quotes about being depressed and sayings about depression can provide insight into what it’s like living with depression as well as inspiration and a feeling of “someone gets it.” These sad emotional quotes and depression sayings deal with different aspects of the illness such as grief, sadness, loneliness and other related issues. Feel free to share these quotes on your website, blog or social page for your own enjoyment or to help others.

Below is a great collection of depressing sad quotes that would make you realize that it is not only you who feel the same way, everybody does. That is why it is important to have close friends around you. This is not intended for you to feel a lot more depressed and down but for you to realize that pain is life’s reality and everyone encounters it.

There are always people in your life that will be there for you, sometimes all you have to do is communicate! These quotes about friendship capture the true spirit of being there for each.

Hopefully, these depressing quotes about love and life will help you reflect and cheer you up for when you need it:

“People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.“ tweet

You can see many smiles every day, but you can never know whose world is actually upside down. tweet

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. tweet

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. tweet

“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seems like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart, and Other Black Holes

“I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“There’s death all around us. Everywhere we look. 1.8 people kill themselves every second. We just don’t pay attention. Until we do.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“And then something invisible snapped inside her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“But I didn’t understand them. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami

“I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there–like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

“As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for.”
― Melina Marchetta, Jellicoe Road

“Where is my chance to be somebody’s Peter Van Houten?’ He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. ‘I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in the dirt. There were more than two bodies buried here. Pieces of me that I didn’t even know were under the ground. Pieces of dad, too.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother’s was worth a pocket watch.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That’s just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky is Everywhere

Short Depression Quotes

For over 20 years, I have struggled with chronic depression. Along with diet and exercise, working with medical professionals, and developing healthy relationships with others, I have learned that deep depressing quotes and inspiring sayings can be a powerful tool in fighting depression. For while medicines can heal the body, motivating words can heal the soul.

“Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I’ve made that commitment for my life’s sake and for the sake of those who love me.” — Susan Polis Schutz

“Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” — Christopher Reeve

“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.” — Stephan Hoeller

Often the people with the strongest hearts carry the heaviest ones.

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller

“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” — Joyce Meyer

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

How did I go from that little 5-year-old, always happy & always laughing, to…this?

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” — Fred Rogers

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” — Richard Bach

Depression is like drowning. Except you can see everyone else around you breathing.

“Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” — Matt Lucas

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” — Madeleine L’Engle

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” — Greenville Kleisser

“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen

I’m hurt, and I’m heartbroken, and I’m sad, and I’m depressed, and I’ve been crying, but I don’t wanna let it ruin my life.

Quotes About Depression and Anxiety

These sad quotes about life and pain not only provide inspiration, but they give you a look into what it’s like living with anxiety and panic. After reading the anxiety quotes and depressing sayings, feel free to share them on your website, blog or social page for your own private viewing or to help others.

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you. – Dan Millman.

“P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired…it’s not going to kill you. Ask anyone who’s been through it.” ~Danielle LaPorte

The perfect is the enemy of the good. – Voltaire

“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” ~Anais Nin

Don’t believe everything you think. – unknown.

“Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” ~Jodi Picoult

The only way out is through. – Robert Frost

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” ~Grenville Kleiser

Act the way that you want to feel. – Gretchen Rubin

“The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.” ~Daniel Goleman

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. – Steven Hayes.

“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.” ~Alain de Botton

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” ~Arthur Somers Roche

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” ~Deepak Chopra

If you aren’t willing to have it, you will. – Steven Hayes The majority of things people with anxiety do to try to escape from it, generate further stress and anxiety.

“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” ~George Bernard Shaw

(Slow breathing) is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t make the storm goes away, but it will hold you steady until it passes. – Russ Harris

Inspirational Quotes Depression

WHO has conducted research that revealed: there are about 121 million people suffering from depression all over the world. It is obvious and this statistics implies that many people suffer from depression and today our society is facing a huge problem that is getting worse every second. In this article, you will find out what think about famous people, their deep quotes about life.

Read carefully and try to pay attention. If you find some very depressing quotes to be inspiring or comforting, share them with someone who you think might need it. Quotes about depression and love are a great way to stay motivated each day because they are a quick read (You can read 1-2 depression quotes a day) and are often inspirational and motivating. Or you may print the list and put it somewhere, where you pass time daily.

“Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” — Christopher Reeve

“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” — Joyce Meyer

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. ~ Isaac Asimov

Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. ~ James R. Cook

A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl. ~ Stephan Hoeller

“Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” — Matt Lucas

“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” — Madeleine L’Engle

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past. ~ Brian Tracey

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. ~ Napoleon Hill

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” — Greenville Kleisser

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without want and a grief. But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.” – Khalil Gibran

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Author Unknown

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

“We learn from failure, not from success.” – Bram Stoker

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” – Joyce Meyer

“Happiness does not depend upon who you are or what you have. It depends solely on what you think.” – Dale Carnegie

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” –William James

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.” ― J.K. Rowling

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats

“Even for me, life had its gleams of sunshine.” ― Charlotte Brontë

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray

“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.” – Abraham H. Maslow

“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” – James R. Cook

“Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world: making the most of one’s best.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick

Quotes About Depression and Hope

Depression sayings about life are odd things. What resonates with one person may not with another. But regardless, lonely quotes can make us feel less alone. For me, it’s because I see that somehow, somewhere, at some time, someone else felt similarly to me and got through it. It gives me permission to feel overwhelmed but encourages me to go on. So I do. Depressing life quotes may not save a life, but really depressing quotes can make suffering momentarily easier.

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. – Anonymous

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response. – Deng Ming-Dao

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin

We are not to blame for our illness, but we are responsible for our health.- Victoria Maxwell, BPP (Bipolar Princess)

“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. -Rumi

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, ‘Grow, grow.’ – The Talmud

Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. – Viktor E. Frankl

“At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself: What is really important? Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.” ~Lee Jampolsky

My only advice: stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it. -Judy Blume

“Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world: making the most of one’s best.” ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Even if you’re on the right track…if you just sit there, you’ll still get hit. – Will Rogers

The action is the antidote to despair. – Joan Baez

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew.” ~Saint Francis de Sales

Try to love and live the question itself. Don’t search for the answer. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. – Rainer Maria Rilke

When you follow your bliss… doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else. – Joseph Campbell

Depressing Quotes About Love

“Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” » Bob Marley

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!”

“The saddest thing is when you are feeling really down, you look around and realize that there is no shoulder for you.”

“The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Gustav Jung

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.” » Carol Rifka Brunt

“I don’t know if it’s possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who’ve seen firsthand what hate can do. We’re all hurting. We’re all going to be hurting for a long time. And we, probably more than anyone else out there, will be searching for a new reality every day. A better one.” » Jennifer Brown

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